FARC dissidents on Wednesday vowed to protect indigenous leaders in the southwest of Colombia after far-right group Aguilas Negras offered generous rewards to kill them. The rogue guerrillas’ offer to…
One of Colombia’s leading opposition senators, Gustavo Petro, said he has received death threats after a video of him receiving cash was made public by a political opponent. Petro said…
Right-wing extremist group Agulias Negras sent out a death threat to congressmen, human rights advocates and journalists on Tuesday. Ivan Cepeda, senator of the socialist Democratic Pole party, tweeted out…
The party of Colombia’s ex-President Alvaro Uribe said Friday that supporters and members of his party have received a death threat at their office in Medellin. In a press release,…
Right-wing extremist group the Aguilas Negras are threatening to kill anyone who opposes Colombia’s new president, Ivan Duque. In the latest death threat and manifesto by the group’s “Southwestern Bloc,”…
Colombia’s prosecution announced on Wednesday that it has opened a hotline for journalists, social leaders and human rights defenders who receive death threats. The hotline was opened after foreign governments…
Far-right group Aguilas Negras has vowed to “exterminate” all Colombia’s human rights defenders and social leaders, calling them “guerrillas in disguise.” In a death threat sent to dozens of organizations…
The leader of of leftist political party Patriotic Union (UP) on Thursday claimed she had been threatened by paramilitary group AGC, which immediately rejected the claim. A pamphlet signed by…
The director of Colombia’s tax agency (DIAN) will resign and flee the country amid death threats received from organized crime groups, national media reported Friday.